Manipulating Flora
@manipulatingflora.bsky.social
Research group working on 🌿plants🌴 in early modern natural philosophy - Studies of🌾Plant Physiology, Envinroment, Medicine, Anatomy and Society #histsci #envhist #histplants #plantstudies
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📣CFP HSS-ESHS 2026 joint conference - 13-16 July 2026 in Edinburg. Here attached, a proposal for a panel on "Artisans, Practitioners, and Instruments in the Making of Premodern Science" - share or send me an abstract #practices #labor #artisans #artifacts #instruments #hss
Image from Agostino Gallo
Image from Agostino Gallo
November 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📣CFP HSS-ESHS 2026 joint conference - 13-16 July 2026 in Edinburg. Here attached, a proposal for a panel on "Artisans, Practitioners, and Instruments in the Making of Premodern Science" - share or send me an abstract #practices #labor #artisans #artifacts #instruments #hss
Image from Agostino Gallo
Image from Agostino Gallo
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My essay on the relationship between plant intelligence (and its history) and ecology - a message to politicians!
#plantstudies #plantintelligence #ecology #environmentalstudies #philo #histsci #ConEnvHist
www.indiscreto.org/lintelligenz...
#plantstudies #plantintelligence #ecology #environmentalstudies #philo #histsci #ConEnvHist
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L’intelligenza delle piante alla base di un cambiamento politico
Le piante non sono sfondo, ma protagoniste della vita sulla Terra. Questo saggio ripercorre la lunga storia di un pensiero ecologico che mette al centro la relazione tra i viventi, a partire dall’inte...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:08 AM
My essay on the relationship between plant intelligence (and its history) and ecology - a message to politicians!
#plantstudies #plantintelligence #ecology #environmentalstudies #philo #histsci #ConEnvHist
www.indiscreto.org/lintelligenz...
#plantstudies #plantintelligence #ecology #environmentalstudies #philo #histsci #ConEnvHist
www.indiscreto.org/lintelligenz...
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
Edited By @fabribald.bsky.social
is now available in the new warehouse -
www.routledge.com/Epistemic-Pr...
The ebook is on sale for US $42.74
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November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
October 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
November 29th, I take part in this very promising seminar at ENS in Paris on the intersections of plant and cultural studies in the early modern time. #plantstudies #17thcentury #histsci #materialhistory
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
I look very forward to this!
I am in Paris from this Friday - happy to catch up with friends!
As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory
October 8, 2025 at 8:35 AM
As a part of the EU-funded project led by @fabribald.bsky.social , this is a first event - Constructing the Environment #ConEnvHist on Monday 13th afternoon in Milan - speaking about practices and theories in premodern studies of nature #nature #histsci #histbotany #environment #environmentalhistory
Sumana Roy latest reflection on how the vegetal turn has influenced hindi cinema #vegetallife #plantstudies #vegetation
August 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Sumana Roy latest reflection on how the vegetal turn has influenced hindi cinema #vegetallife #plantstudies #vegetation
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#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
August 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture
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a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team
#histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies
a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team
#histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies
REPORT FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ANDREA CESALPINO SYSTEMATICS SYMPOSIUM – IACS500, PISA, ITALY, 5–6 JUNE 2025
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August 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team
#histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies
a nice and attentive report of the symposium organized in Pisa for the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino #ortobotanico #Pisa by Lorenzo Peruzzi and his team
#histbotany #histsci #philsci #botany #renaissancestudies
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Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
July 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Vino🍷🍇: Agriculture, Medicine, Symbolism and Conviviality. For a Natural History of Wine in the Renaissance 🍾
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
My cfp for a panel at #RSA26 #RsaSanFrancisco #RSA2026
#HIstsci #histmed #histagriculture #arthistory
Apply if interested - send me a short abstract
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci
June 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
A less-known pharmacist is Bartolomeo Maranta - a former student of Luca Ghini - who worked with plants in Naples (in a garden of Giovan Vincenzo Pinelli) and published a fascinating Method on studying plants in 1559 --- several years before Cesalpino, but also Pena and Lobel #plantstudies #histsci
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Let me also add that the volume is now available in paperback - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/andrea-ce...
Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism
Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple tradit…
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June 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Let me also add that the volume is now available in paperback - www.bloomsbury.com/uk/andrea-ce...
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📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
May 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📣 #bluestorians #skystorians Happy to share that on October 6th, 2025, I discuss my book on #Descartes with Dan Garber and Deb Brown - who are 2 of the major Cartesian scholars of our time - chair: Igor Agostini #17thcent #earlymodern #histphilo #individualbodies
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury
June 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Next Early Modern Lab at NTU - organized by Dana Jalobeanu - features Gideon Manning on visualizing nature with text and image #visualizingknowledge #visualizingscience #illustrations #17thcentury
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Next week, we welcome @stellasandford.bsky.social (Kingston University) in our ROTO Lecture Series. She will reflect on John Dupré's #PhilBio and talk about "promiscuous realism" and plant individuality. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci
#HPBio #PhilSci
May 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Next week, we welcome @stellasandford.bsky.social (Kingston University) in our ROTO Lecture Series. She will reflect on John Dupré's #PhilBio and talk about "promiscuous realism" and plant individuality. Just register here to participate 👉 rotorub.wordpress.com/roto-lecture...
#HPBio #PhilSci
#HPBio #PhilSci
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www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/iacs500-symp...
📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳
the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️
📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳
the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️
IACS500 Symposium - Orto e Museo Botanico
For the five hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Botanical Garden and Museum of the University of Pisa is celebrating Andrea Cesalpino, the second praefectus of the garden and a key figure in the ...
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May 12, 2025 at 7:26 AM
www.ortomuseobot.sma.unipi.it/iacs500-symp...
📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳
the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️
📣 Happy to be a keynote at the 500th anniversary of #AndreaCesalpino in Pisa -🌿I will provide some historical insights at a very nice conference on botanical systematics #histsci #plantstudies🌳
the history of plants matters in today's science🌱 Program⤵️
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Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment is a new book edited by @fabribald.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline. Its scope expands bey...
www.aup.nl
May 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment is a new book edited by @fabribald.bsky.social www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Video recording of The Vegetal Turn: A conversation with Marcello Di Paola held Jan 30, 2025. Sponsored by @theplantinitiative.bsky.social This was an online conversation with plant philosopher Marcello Di Paola about his new book on plants in the environmental humanities. youtu.be/sa5DXb1S6SM
The Vegetal Turn: a conversation with Marcello Di Paola
YouTube video by The Plant Initiative
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January 30, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Video recording of The Vegetal Turn: A conversation with Marcello Di Paola held Jan 30, 2025. Sponsored by @theplantinitiative.bsky.social This was an online conversation with plant philosopher Marcello Di Paola about his new book on plants in the environmental humanities. youtu.be/sa5DXb1S6SM
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Our next printmaker is Tom Scott whose prints focus on trees, the patterns in their rings and the beauty of their growth. If you are able to come along 15-17 Aug, Tom will enthuse you about his work and you can only admire the scale and focus of it.
www.printmakersofscotland.com
www.printmakersofscotland.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Our next printmaker is Tom Scott whose prints focus on trees, the patterns in their rings and the beauty of their growth. If you are able to come along 15-17 Aug, Tom will enthuse you about his work and you can only admire the scale and focus of it.
www.printmakersofscotland.com
www.printmakersofscotland.com
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I was reminded that the volume Vegetative Powers was published circa 4 years ago, presenting a deep discussion with the powers of plants and vegetation in a wide-array of philosophers #vegpowers #vegetation #manipulatingflora #plantstudies
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
April 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I was reminded that the volume Vegetative Powers was published circa 4 years ago, presenting a deep discussion with the powers of plants and vegetation in a wide-array of philosophers #vegpowers #vegetation #manipulatingflora #plantstudies
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Congratulations to the editor of & contributors to
Epistemic Practices & Plant Classification in Pre-Modern Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited by @fabribald.bsky.social
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
It appears in the @amsterdamupress.bsky social series Scientiae Studies.
Epistemic Practices & Plant Classification in Pre-Modern Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited by @fabribald.bsky.social
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
It appears in the @amsterdamupress.bsky social series Scientiae Studies.
Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline. Its scope expands bey...
www.aup.nl
April 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Congratulations to the editor of & contributors to
Epistemic Practices & Plant Classification in Pre-Modern Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited by @fabribald.bsky.social
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
It appears in the @amsterdamupress.bsky social series Scientiae Studies.
Epistemic Practices & Plant Classification in Pre-Modern Botanical Knowledge: An Interdisciplinary Treatment
Edited by @fabribald.bsky.social
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
It appears in the @amsterdamupress.bsky social series Scientiae Studies.
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Thank you to @fabribald.bsky.social for saying hi!
His book ‘Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge’ uncovers the diverse approach to plants in the 17th century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a discipline. Find it on our #RSA stand 🍃
His book ‘Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge’ uncovers the diverse approach to plants in the 17th century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a discipline. Find it on our #RSA stand 🍃
March 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thank you to @fabribald.bsky.social for saying hi!
His book ‘Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge’ uncovers the diverse approach to plants in the 17th century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a discipline. Find it on our #RSA stand 🍃
His book ‘Epistemic Practices and Plant Classification in Premodern European Botanical Knowledge’ uncovers the diverse approach to plants in the 17th century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a discipline. Find it on our #RSA stand 🍃
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It’s always a joy to catch up with Catherine Powell-Warren, author of ‘Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science’
Her impressive book recently won the First Book Prize at the SSEMWG book awards #RSA #earlymodsky
Her impressive book recently won the First Book Prize at the SSEMWG book awards #RSA #earlymodsky
March 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It’s always a joy to catch up with Catherine Powell-Warren, author of ‘Gender and Self-Fashioning at the Intersection of Art and Science’
Her impressive book recently won the First Book Prize at the SSEMWG book awards #RSA #earlymodsky
Her impressive book recently won the First Book Prize at the SSEMWG book awards #RSA #earlymodsky
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Hello Everyone, please join us at the Denbo Center virtually for @fabribald.bsky.social talk as part of our seminar series, Labour of Science. Register with the QR code below! Looking forward to seeing you all there!
February 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Hello Everyone, please join us at the Denbo Center virtually for @fabribald.bsky.social talk as part of our seminar series, Labour of Science. Register with the QR code below! Looking forward to seeing you all there!
The latest issue of @centaurus-bsky.bsky.social #Centaurus @brepols.bsky.social is out with an oa special issue on #NehemiahGrew, edited by Christoffer Basse Eriksen and Pamela Mackenzie - entitled: "Nehemiah Grew and the Making of the Anatomy of Plants".🌳🌱
www.brepolsonline.net/toc/cnt/2023...
www.brepolsonline.net/toc/cnt/2023...
Centaurus: Vol 65, No 4
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February 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The latest issue of @centaurus-bsky.bsky.social #Centaurus @brepols.bsky.social is out with an oa special issue on #NehemiahGrew, edited by Christoffer Basse Eriksen and Pamela Mackenzie - entitled: "Nehemiah Grew and the Making of the Anatomy of Plants".🌳🌱
www.brepolsonline.net/toc/cnt/2023...
www.brepolsonline.net/toc/cnt/2023...